Measuring Your Library’s Value

How to Do a Cost-Benefit Analysis for Your Public Library

This sample cost-benefit analysis report is based on data from the study reported in Manual for Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Value America’s Medium-Sized and Smaller Public Libraries, by Glen E. Holt, Donald Elliott, Leslie Edmonds Holt, and Sterling Hayden, published electronically in December 2005 on OCLC’s WebJunction, http://data.webjunction.org/wj/documents/12389.doc.